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    5 a Day = Fluent in a Year
    5 a Day = Fluent in a Year
    5 a Day = Fluent in a Year
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    5 a Day = Fluent in a Year

    By Sheldon Anderson

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    Have you ever wanted to learn a foreign language but you were overwhelmed because you thought it would take forever? Were you curious about how many words that it would take for you to be considered fluent? Did you give up before you even started because you didn't know where to begin? Here is a simple method that I have for you. I call it 5 a day=fluent in a year All you have to do is learn (memorize) 5 words a day. There are 365 days in a year. So times that by 5 and what do you have? You have 1,825 words in your arsenal (by the way, one only needs to know 1,800-2,000 words to be considered fluent). For the 4 years that it would take a high school or even a college student to learn enough vocabulary, I have done it in a year on my own. I am giving you about 2,000 words, all in the order that I have learned them. These are not impractical words that we hardly ever use like: spaceship, and rocket scientist. Come on! Do we use words like that everyday? Of course not. We use words like knife, fork, spoon, butter, play, work, sing, and dance. These are the kind of words that I'm giving to you. I have done all the work for you. I went through the entire Spanish/English dictionary from A-Z, and pulled out all the words that I know are the most necessary in everyday language. All you have to do is take the exact order that I have given them to you and learn 5 a day. That way, there's no being overwhelmed by taking up too much time to learn in a day and wondering where to go next. It is fun to do because it only takes a few minutes a day. First, look at the five words and get familiar with them. Then, place your hand over the Spanish and look only at the English to see if you memorized the Spanish correctly. Then take your hand off the Spanish to see if you got it right. Do that for all 5 words. Then, when you go the next day to learn 5 more words, first go back to the 5 from the day before and make sure you still remember them. That's it!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateFeb 10, 2012
    ISBN9781468550719
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      5 a Day = Fluent in a Year - Sheldon Anderson

      © 2012 by Sheldon Anderson. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      First published by AuthorHouse 02/01/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-5072-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-5071-9 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012902094

      Printed in the United States of America

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      PROLOGUE

      English Alphabet (26 letters)

      PROLOGUE

      Every language spoken on this planet is all about pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. That’s it. When you have all three down, you have the language down. My old college Chinese professor once said that learning a language is like building a house. You need some bricks and you need the blueprints. The vocabulary is the bricks and the grammar is the blueprints. If you only had the opportunity to use one (the bricks or the blueprints) which would you choose? That’s right… the bricks. Sure, the house won’t be perfect, but you’ll be able to get by. What’s the use of knowing all the grammar (the rules of a language) in the world when you do not even know a single vocabulary word? What’s the use of staring at a blueprint all day long when you don’t even have the materials to build the house?

      Anyone would be happy if they knew enough to get by in a foreign country. The main thing we use language for is to get our wants and needs across to the next person. What if you’re stuck in Mexico and there is no one around that speaks English? What if you were out walking along the highway all day in the sun and you found a gas station that had drinks. Do you need to say Could you please help me by giving me a glass of cold water to drink, for I am very thirsty? Yes, that would be nice to say if you had the time to perfect your foreign language ability. But all you really need in that moment is to say, Thirsty… water, please.

      And there you have it. You would know just enough vocabulary to get by; and in some cases, just enough vocabulary to survive. So what is my point here? Vocabulary, vocabulary, vocabulary. That is the priority above all else. We’ve all been frustrated when listening to somebody speak in our target language (the language that you are trying to learn) and couldn’t understand a thing they were saying. This is so because they have used words in a sentence that you haven’t learned yet! I remember when I was a beginner student in

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